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▸ noun: Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
▸ noun: (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
▸ noun: (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
▸ noun: (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
▸ noun: (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
▸ noun: (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
▸ verb: (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.
Similar:
surgical seam,
sutura,
seam,
venisuture,
osteosuture,
suturectomy,
butterfly stitch,
sagittal suture,
coaptation suture,
plication,
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continuous,
sagittal,
absorbable,
coronal,
nonabsorbable,
primary,
interrupted,
single,
lambdoid,
frontal,
fine
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